Word: toasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against this false optimism, the West's military men tried to set the sobering facts of life, but only managed to sound like anxious schoolmarms trying to restore order after the cry of "School's Out" has sounded. Replying to Winston Churchill's toast at a dinner given in his honor by the Anglo-American Pilgrim Society, NATO Supreme Commander General Matthew B. Ridgway last week said that the massive Red army could still pluck Europe like an overripe plum. The Cold Peace boys assume that because an equilibrium between East & West is planned, it is already...
...state. Tsedenbal signed a ten-year treaty with Red China pledging cultural, economic and educational exchanges. No mention was made of a military alliance, thus underlining the fact that Outer Mongolia's only military connections are with the Soviet Union. At lavish banquets celebrating the pact, Premier Tsedenbal toasted both Mao and Stalin, but for every toast honoring Mao, the "great leader of the Chinese people," there were at least six eulogies of Stalin, hailed as the "Father of the Mongolian Republic . . . who has emancipated us from the imperialist [Chinese] yoke." Sweet are the uses of ritual...
...himself a captain in the Royal Horse Guards), the Halberdiers are a dream come true. They embody all the sentiments of which Guy was starved in the prewar world. Tradition, esprit de corps, ritual and courtesy are combined with high efficiency and discipline. The Halberdiers still loyally toast their Colonel-in-Chief, the Grand Duchess Elena of Russia, who lives "in a bed-sitting-room at Nice.'' They take "peculiar pride" in accepting whatever recruits are sent to them, confident that their "age-old methods of transformation" can make a good fighting man out of the poorest mouse...
Paris is smart, always smart. It's smart this fall in Paris to drink a toast to peace--a United Nations...
...Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Ed Sullivan's variety show, with Edith Piaf, Helen Hayes, Pat O'Brien...